'A long-held wish of Dongducheon residents'

Dongducheon recently held a working-level meeting on the opening of Dongducheon Jejesaeng Hospital, bringing together officials from the city and Daejin Medical Foundation at the Dongducheon Public Health Center's main conference room.

According to the city Tuesday, the meeting was organized to share progress on the opening of the hospital's annex building and to discuss concrete ways to accelerate the process.

Working-level officials from Dongducheon and Daejin Medical Foundation reviewed key issues surrounding the annex opening and exchanged views on what would be needed during the preparation process and on the direction of future efforts.

Shin Ae-ran, head of the health administration division at the Dongducheon Public Health Center, said the hospital's opening "is a long-held wish of Dongducheon residents and an essential project for improving the local healthcare environment." Shin added that the city would "carefully monitor progress and work to ensure the hospital opens as soon as possible."

In response, a Daejin Medical Foundation representative said the foundation would "continue to communicate and cooperate with Dongducheon to open the hospital," pledging to "do its utmost to carry out all preparations without a hitch so the hospital can open at the earliest possible date."


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